Also check out "The Great Automatic Grammatizator" by Roald Dahl for another eerily accurate scifi description of LLMs written in 1954:
replyhttps://gwern.net/doc/fiction/science-fiction/1953-dahl-theg...
"Can write a prize-winning novel in fifteen minutes" - that's quite optimistic by modern standards!
reply42 wasn't a low quality answer.
replyThe joke revolves around the incongruity of "42" being precisely correct.